Love Song - A Wedding Poem

The world, for me, and all the world can hold Is circled by your arms; for me there lies, Within the lights and shadows of your eyes, The only beauty that is never old. We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life.

Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain.

Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon.

You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I.

In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land. What are your favorite short wedding poems? Tomorrow morning if you wake up And the sun does not appear I I will be here If in the dark we lose sight of love Hold my hand and have no fear 'Cause I I will be here I will be here When you feel like being quiet When you need to speak your mind I will listen And I will be here When the laughter turns to crying Through the winning, losing and trying We'll be together 'Cause I will be here Tomorrow morning if you wake up And the future is unclear I I will be here As sure as seasons are made for change Our lifetimes are made for years So I I will be here I will be here And you can cry on my shoulder When the mirror tells us we're older I will hold you And I will be here To watch you grow in beauty And tell you all the things you are to me I will be here, hmmm I will be true to the promise I have made To you and to the One who gave you to me And just as sure as seasons are made for change Our lifetimes are made for years So I I will be here We'll be together I will be here.

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3. Rhetorik - Eine Begriffsannäherung (German Edition).

Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth. It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders all bitterness sweet and acceptable. Nothing is sweeter than love, Nothing stronger, Nothing higher, Nothing wider, Nothing more pleasant, Nothing fuller or better in heaven or earth; for love is born of God.

Love flies, runs and leaps for joy. It is free and unrestrained.

Love knows no limits, but ardently transcends all bounds. Love feels no burden, takes no account of toil, attempts things beyond its strength.

Love sees nothing as impossible, for it feels able to achieve all things. It is strange and effective, while those who lack love faint and fail. Love is not fickle and sentimental, nor is it intent on vanities. Like a living flame and a burning torch, it surges upward and surely surmounts every obstacle.

From Sonnet 116 in Love Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare

A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. Each unveils the best part of the other. Our soul mate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life.